From the editor

THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW Volume II, Number 2 Winter, 1981 Table of Contents Tender-Minded Idealism and Erotic Repression In James's "Madame de Mauves" and "The Last of the Valerii." By Dorothy Berkson..................................................78 A Lesson for the Master: Henry James and A. K. Loring. By Madel e I ne B. Stern...........................................................................87 The Portrait of a Lady: The Second Hundred Years. By W! 11 lam T. Stafford..........................................................................91 Veils and Masks: The B11thedaIe Romance and The Sacred Fount. By El I zabeth Keyser............................................................................101 Gossip and Gothicism In The Sacred Fount. By E. A. Sklepowlch......................................112 Perfection, Beauty, and Suffering in "The Two Faces." By J. Peter Dyson............................116 Prince Amerigo's Borgia Heritage. By Cheryl B. Torsney.............................................126 James Studies 1978-1979: An Analytic Bibliographical Essay. By Richard A. Hocks and John S. Hardt..........................................................132 Franz Link, Geschichte der amerikanischen ErzShlkunst Im 19. Jahrhundert. Rev lew by Werner B i es..........................................................................153 ****************** From the editor: Typically and, as ever, with considerable relief, we go to press with the present issue a good five weeks behind schedule, but with a lively wind in our sails, a cumulative breeze, so to speak, conjoining various currents, to wit: 1) figures that only became clear this month (March) show that The Henry James Review and the Henry James Society will break even for this academic year; 2) this week saw the count of returned ballots for election of the Board of Directors of the James Society surpass half the number of our membership, and since those ballots unanimously approve the slate, we have our first elected board: Carren Kaston (President), Rosalie Hewitt (Vice-President), Daniel Flneman (Secretary-Treasurer), Edwin Fussel I, Dennis O'Connor, and John Carlos Rowe (and, ex off IcIo, yours truly, Dan Fogel , editor); 3) the 1981 meeting of the James Society In Houston was no less successful than the memorable Inaugural meeting In San Francisco the year before; and 4) library subscriptions to the HJR should be given a considerable boost by the review that just appeared In Library Journal (March 1, 1980), which recommends us to "all libraries" (the best recommendations for other journal s covered In Library Journal's regular "Magazines" column were for adoptions by "larger collections" and by "larger research libraries"). I will not comment here on the substance of the three excellent papers del Ivered at the James Society meeting since members will be able to read them all: the papers by Jean Blackall and Edwin Fussell will be published In the next Issue of the HJR whlIe the one by Quentin Anderson will be published In the forthcoming Prospects; An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies. In the business portion of the meeting, members vented considerable chagrin—shared by all of us Involved In organizing the Society—at the continuing moratorium on applications to the Modern Language Association for Allied Organization status. Here, for members' Information, are letters exchanged on the subject by Carren Kaston and MLA Executive Director Joel Conarroe after the Houston meeting: Dear Mr. Conarroe: I am writing on behalf of the Henry James Society about our application for affiliation with the MLA. The Society has been In existence since the summer of 1978. For the last two years, at considerable expense to the Society, we have held a 2 1/2 hour annual meeting that has coincided with the MLA Convention. For the last year and a half, we have published The Henry James Review, sent trl-quarterly to our membership. I have corresponded twice with the MLA about our desire to become an allied organization, and each time the response to my Inquiry has been more discouraging. A copy of my most recent letter, and the response, are enclosed. 76 In her letter of July 3, Ms. Balch [of the MLA] notes the existence of a moratorium that would make It Impossible for us to become affiliated with the MLA for several more years. If not for the moratorium, we would have been eligible last summer to apply for affiliation. I am writing now at the urging of James Tuttieton, Edwin Fussel 1, John Carlos Rowe, and Stephen Donadlo, who are members of the Society. Paul...